The Celts' clothes showed their status and importance within the tribe. Men would wear a tunic with a belt, a cloak and trousers. Women wore dresses fastened with brooches. It is likely that women wore a simple, long, sleeveless dress, possibly a simple tube of cloth pinned or sewn together at the shoulders. This might have been worn over a blouse or shirt. Men had been wearing trousers in northern and western Europe since the Late Bronze Age when horse riding became common and these would have been worn along with a shirt. Both sexes would have also worn cloaks. By the time of the Bronze Age, people had learned how to weave wool into cloth so that their clothes became a little more sophisticated than the rough skins worn by many of their ancestors. Most men wore a tunic, leggings and a cloak as well as jewellery in the shape of cloak fasteners and bracelets. The rich had finer clothes and wore many ornaments of rings and bracelets. There are also many examples of cloak fasteners made from precious metals. Razors have been found and would seem to indicate that the men were clean shaven.

In the course of this research program, we analyse, discuss and contextualize the material from several points of view: Further and in comparison with the textiles from the Danish Early Bronze Age oak coffins, the Early Iron Age bog finds and the Early Roman Iron Age grave find from Hammerum, Lønne Hede provide one of the largest and most important collection of textile finds in Northern Europe which also offer an important contribution to the understanding of the technological changes in textile production that appears to occur in the early centuries of the Common Era in Northern Europe. Objective and method The staff at CTR and at the National Museum of Denmark (associate professor phil.dr. Eva Andersson Strand and senior researcher PhD Ulla Mannering) support and contribute scientific to the project. Eva Andersson Strand: textile tools, textile technology, production and organisation. Ulla Mannering: analysis of prehistoric textiles with focus on Early Iron Age costume development. Leather was being made at this time. This and other animal hides could have been used for clothes, caps and for shoes. Sheep skin could also be used to make clothing, especially cloaks. Wild animal fur and the feathers from birds were also used for clothing or for decoration. Footwear of Iron Age After comparing the armhole sizes and sleeve widths on the garments I own. I guestimated the size of the sleeve rectangles, 33 cm wide plus 3 cm for the seam allowances. I measured the length of the sleeve from my shoulder to my wrist and added a few centimetres for the seam allowances, the hem, and just for sure. I narrowed the sleeves down so that the wrist edge was 22 cm plus 3 cm for the seams. I cut two 10 cm times 10 cm underarm squares and then two gores from the rest of the fabric. The gore size was determined by the amount of fabric I had. Practice runsThe unusually well-preserved textiles and hairstyles from Lønne Hede offer a unique opportunity to obtain insight into costume and identity in Denmark in the Early Roman Iron Age (1st – 2nd Centuries AD). This tells us that the woman from Huldremose had access to a variety of precious textiles, which rules out the idea that she was poor. Become friends with the “Lønne girl” and follow the activities around the exhibition in Nymindegab and the work with the textile analysis. The people haven’t simply dyed their clothes in one go; they have freshened up the faded clothes continually.

The Lønne Hede cemetery distinguishes itself from other contemporary Iron Age graves on account of its many remains of textiles and human hair. It is extremely rare to recover well preserved textile finds from prehistoric burials, and more so in the quantities that constitute the finds from Lønne Hede. From these graves it is possible to distinguish components of the costume such as skirts, dresses or tunics, shawls and cloaks, and to see how jewellery was related to the costume. The manufacture of garments with several different colours has required a mastery of many dyeing techniques that made use of various dyebaths. But our analyses show – quite surprisingly – that colour and pattern came into fashion in the earliest part of the Iron Age. That’s 500 years earlier than previously thought.” Thus, the Lønne Hede graves constitute in a European context a unique find material which can provide new and interesting knowledge on how the people of the early Roman Iron Age were dressed and how they produced their textiles.Still, unravelling the vertical edges for the tablet weaving took days. The horizontal selvedge edges were so felted and neat so that I only turned them once and stitched the fold in plave. Finishing the edges with tablet weaving The Prehistoric Era has been divided into six major ages which are Stone Age, Paleolithic Age, Mesolithic Age, Neolithic Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. All these six major ages are now described in brief below: Stone Age: The Early Iron Age material, comprising both pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age, includes finds from three distinct contexts: bogs, weapon deposits and burials. The focus of this research programme is the finds from the bogs and weapon deposits. The National Museum of Denmark and several local museums in Jutland are important partners in the investigation of the bog finds. The study of textiles from the Illerup, Vimose, Nydam and Thorsberg weapon deposits is funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities and is connected to the international research programs “The Iron Age in Northern Europe” headed by Jørgen Ilkjær, Moesgård Museum, Denmark and “Zwischen Thorsberg und Bornstein” headed by Claus von Carnap-Bornheim, Archäeologisches Landesmuseum Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Germany. Mission

Mannering, U. 2009: Dragten i tidlig jernalder. In: K. M. Boe, T. Capelle & C. Fischer (eds.): Tollundmandens verden. Kontinentale kontakter i tidlig jernalder. Wormianum & Silkeborg Kulturhistoriske Museum, 98-106.The mission of the program is to examine the costumes from the Early Iron Ages using modern scientific methods, and to create new international reference standards for these items. The long-term aim is to set new textile research standards, and to explore and communicate the new knowledge acquired during the process. Methodology The Lønne Hede project is an interdisciplinary research project running from 2011-2014 with participation of researchers from: DNRF, Centre for Textile Research and the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, The National Museum of Denmark, Varde Museum and Conservation Centre Vejle. This project is based on collaborative effort cross institutions and involving disciplines such as prehistoric archaeology, textile research and natural science. https://www.facebook.com/Lønnepigen https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2144387208128&id=1199682013&ref=notif¬if_t=like#!/profile.php?id=100001992815001 My personal theory is that we should revise our view of the bog finds because they have been buried in a context that is completely different from what we’ve been thinking up to now,” says Mannering.

Not only was her costume of a high quality, it also had many colours, particularly red, which was not widely used at the time. This indicates that she had a high social status.Archaeologists have found many examples of elaborate personal ornaments worn by the Late Iron Age elite (100 BC-AD 50). Some examples are given below: